03 Nov 2022 --- US environmental organizations Just Zero and Beyond Plastics are calling on the UN to drop Coca-Cola as a sponsor for its upcoming COP27 climate talks. Critics have raised over 235,000 signatures in an online petition to prevent “corporate infiltration” of the event. The conference, set for 6th-18th November, will be held in Egypt. Peter Blair, a state policy director for Just Zero, tells PackagingInsights the rising opposition to Coca-Cola’s involvement in the event is centrally over concerns that corporate influence could impact policymaking and that international governments are allowing corporations to greenwash their images via important political events.
